We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.

Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation.

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.